THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1IKMT.
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chaaaied as often aa requested.
Nebraska democracy has stated iu
Iosltlou outside the pasture and ex
(MMliiiKly hungry.
('Iialriimn Hhonts Is playing safe
when he says he will be governed by
the wishes of President Roosevelt.
Senator Roott has maintained the tra
ditions of West Virginia, but the life of
I hose traditions may he cut short be
fore very long.
Iu all probability the rentier axiom
that "dead ' men tell no tales," had
something to do with the return of An
drew Hamilton.
New York boast 12,000 policemen.
Aud yet even they could not prevent a
boy from being Crowe-uaped In mid
day and held for a 120,000 rausom.
The tear Is evidently of the opinion
that although he will let the people
chirp at the horses he must continue to
drive the team to pave It from destruc
tion. tjrent Britain wants equal treatment
with Germany In the matter of trade
with the United States, but as it has
little more to give It Is hard to make a
trade. ,
Wyoming Is complaining of the in
crease of predatory animals. It was
supposed the Nebraska wolf bounty had
lured them all over to our side of the
boundary.
Senator Dolllvers remark, "Every
Iowa man has done his duty," Is one
that V'ould also sound well for the Ne
brnsktt congressional delegation when It
Is put In the balance.
The proposition to employ as chief of
Hi Moroccan police force an army offi
cer from neither France nor Germany
may give mi opportunity to some Amer
ican who wants his star to shine under
tropla skies
The Grain exchange has made a re
markable showing of business for Its
second." year. If It can keep up this
puce It will have 'all the others dis
tanced before It celebrates many more
anniversaries.
The Omaha fakcries should take out
a patent for Increasing their circula
tion by a systematic process of Blow!
Blow! JrlLOW! It Is so easy to count
four pages for a paper and double chalk
mark the tally. i
We ar told by the senior Omahn
fakery that during the month of Feb
ruary It beat Its own record in lung
expansion and circulation paddlug by
3,000 Inches. That boats the census
padder of IKK) out of sight
With a Georgia man selected to lead
lite democratic congressional campaign,
the country may expect a revival of
state's rights doctrines as opposed to
certain popular demauds but not in the
north until after the votes are counted.
1 The last time be aspired to nomina
It ion, the local democratic organ bolted
J Tom Uoctor in advance and said ha
I was not entitled to the support of any
true democrat. Wonder what it will
'.do now that he has corralled the demo
Vratlc nomination for mayor of Koutu
Omaha?
The New York grand Jury which
asked advice of a Judge regarding the
wisdom of returning indictments
. igalnst certain persons preseuted to
'ihetu by the district attorney showed a
'disposition to W fair, but grand juries
have resHnsibiiitics which they must
-discharge and which Ihry t-auuot uu
kd tu the court.
MflHT OF WA Y FOR THK RA TF. HILL.
What can le accomplished by the
pressure of public opinion Is again aeon
In the fact that the rate bill has practi
cally been given right-of-way over the
senatorial trunk line to which It was
transferred after emerging from the
honse of representatives.
There is no question but that the orig
inal plan of the railroad engineers was
to sidetrack the measure and to break
down its running schedule by sending It
over roundabout routes in hope that it
would be stalled on the sidings and
never reach the destination terminal.
The railway conductors In the senate,
however, have not ltecn able to execute
their orders, but. on the contrary, have
been compelled to come out In the open
and attempt to flag the rate bill on the
main track.
The result Is that the other measures
pending before the senate, although
many of them are of great public im
portance, will have to be waved aside
until the rate bill controversy Is dis
posed of one way or the other. When It
comes to a showdown, unless conditions
change materially In the Interval, the
rate bill special will go right through
without stopping more than once or
twice for water or throwing out any
considerable amount of ballast.
PROGRESS OF PRIMARY REFORM.
The discussions of reform of the pri
mary and election laws at the second
annual conference under the auspices
of the National Civic federation have
been instructive. President Oscar S.
Strauss, in his opening remarks, George
Fred Rush of Chicago, who drafted the
first primary law of Illinois, and
Speaker Lenroot of the Wisconsin as
sembly In carefully prepared addresses
gave forceful and cheering accounts of
progress in the movement to make gov
ernment more directly responsive to
the people by getting rid of election and
nominating methods which are so no
toriously abused by the manipulations
of party bosses and representatives of
special Interests.
The Important fact stands out In these
accounts that experience under the di
rect primary, so far as It has gone In
Wisconsin. Illinois and elsewhere. Is en
couraging to those who have led In the
arduous struggle with the forces fight
ing to keep the direction of public af
fairs as far as possible from the hands
of the people. The very adoption of
the primary reform by legal mandate
has been a signal defeat of those cor
rupting forces, for they have Invariably
resisted it with all the formidable pow
ers at their command. It is not sur
prising that the evidence of the neces
sity of the change thus furnished by Its
enemies should be reinforced by the tes
timony of its friends as to Its beneficial
results.
Such conferences connot fall to accel
erate the movement for free and
cleansed primaries which Is going for
ward so rapidly In many of the states
which have not yet embodied the reform
In law. It Is noteworthy that already
there Is nowhere a community which
has not been stirred by the agitation
for primary reform and very few Indeed
In which the question has not yet be
come a Hvo political lssne.
STATE AFTER ISTERSTATE.
The action of the lower house of the
Ohio legislature, which by an over
whelming vote has passed a measure
creating a state railroad rate commis
sion clothed with plenary powers to
deal with the whole subject, only antic
ipates by a short time what will be
done under one form or another by
many other states In the union. Some
states, indeed, have already long since
made much progress In actual control
of transportation rates within their sev
eral Jurisdictions and iu the correction
therein of wrongful discriminations and
other abuses, but in point of fact most
of the early state commissioner laws
and laws purjortlng to regulate rates,
although accomplishing some good, have
not gone to the root of the matter.
The difference between these earlier
attempts aud the state rate legislation
which is sure as fate now to follow is
that the public will no longer le satis
fied, with anything short of veritable
and absolutely enforclble control of the
carrier tolls exacted from the earning
capacity of the whole community. The
day has gone by when the mere legal
form or promise of control without sub
stantial effect will suffice. The meas
ure passed by the Ohio house under
takes to reach, with reference to state
hauls and rates, the same ends which
the champions of public control have in
view with reference to Interstate com
merce. Obviously the nation-wide strug
gle to reduce transportation corpora
tions to subordination would prove In
large part futile If It should stop with
the .enactment of the most stringent
measure which Is likely to pass congress,
and If It were not supplemented by
bringing the full ower of the several
states to bear on railroad freight and
other charges within their exclusive Jur
isdictionespecially of states like Ne
braska where such arbitrary over
charges and discriminations on local
hauls are extorted now, as they have
been from the beginning, and where
anything looking toward public control
has been utiiforiuly lmotent and far
cical. One of the most effective wetiKna
heretofore of the corporations for fight
ing separate state effort to regulate
local charges Is falling from their hand.
For with iiational control established
the corporations cannot effectually pun
ish a state by arbitrarily raising luter
tate charges on the commodities in
which it may be vitally Interested, as
they were formerly wont to threaten and
do with great effect. And with the
states following in u,P wake of the
great movement now rearing Its crisis
st Washington li nil! lie liiiKKhle to
t cuitcentratc aa effectively as formerly
the corporation powers of resist; noe In
nnv on state.
11H ATS THE MATTER WITH OMAHAt
While Omaha has made greater strides
In commercial and Industrial growth
during the past two years than during
-any period of Its history, and while more
buildings of every description are being
erected In Omaha within the past year
than in any other city of Its population
In the country, there Is an undercurrent
of dissatisfaction with existing condi
tions In this community that should I
proted.
The recent murderous assault upon
Frank N. Clarke In the very heart of the
city by highwaymen strongly confirms
the prevailing Impression that Omaha Is
badly policed. Just as periodic losses by
fire have created the impression that
Omaha's fire department Is lacking Iu
efficiency. There Is a chronic complaint
that the streets of Omaha are not as
clean as those of other cities, and com
plaints are frequently heard that Omaha
streets are not rb well lighted as those
of other cities.
That there Is n great deal more truth
than oetry Iu these complaints must be
conceded by all who are. familiar with
existing conditions. The question is,
Who is to blame and where Is the rem
edy? Conceding that other cities much
letter policed than Omaha are Infested
by highwaymen and their people like
wise subjected to murderous assuults, It
Is true nevertheless that Omaha is la
mentably lacklug in police protection.
For example. New York has one police
man to every 600 Inhabitants; Chicago
one policeman to every 703 Inhabitants,
while Omaha has but one policeman to
every 1,250 Inhabitants. The same dis
proportion exists between the fire de
partment of Omaha aud those of other
American cities.
Why cannot Omaha increase its police
force? Why can't it increase its fire
fighting force? Simply because It does
not raise a sufficient amount of taxes to
meet these demands. Why can't Omaha
raise more taxes? Because its property
owners are already bearing their full
proportion of taxes, and, lastly, because
the railroads refuse to pay their due
projiorlion of the burden of municipal
taxes.
If the railroads were made to pay the
s line proportion of taxes In Omaha that
are levied against other property of
equal value, Omaha could add 100 more
men to Its police force and still have
$110,ooo left In Its treasury for other
punmses. If the railroads paid their
Just proportion of taxes in Omaha,
Omaha could Increase its police force
100 and Its Are force 100 and still have
f-io.000 to spr.re for street cleaning.
This Is the unvarnished truth. Con
ceding that the railroads have done
much toward the upbuilding of Omaha
there Is no good reason why they should
not pay their just share of the expense
of maintaining police protection, fire
protection, " street cleaning and street
lighting. j
Governor Mickey is now at the head
of the Methodist Hospital association,
but he keeps discreetly mum about the
campaign now being conducted by his
police commissioner, with headquarters
In a gambling house and hind quarters
In the vilest of Omaha's dram shops,
while the police are using their clubs to
make converts. Possibly this Is be
cause the Broatch. campaign is expected
to furnish a goodly number of patients
for the hospital.
.Tint Dahlman, the prospective candi
date for mayor of Omaha, was the shin
ing light of Nebraska democracy at the
Lincoln Jamboree which fired off the
keynote of opposition to corporation and
railroad rule. That was enough to
make a horse laugh, let alone Jim Pnhl
inau's groomcrs, Lee Spratlen and Wal
ter Molse, those rock-rooted, copper
bottomed, granite-buttressed antl-rall-road
democrats.
Four hundred of the party leaders of
Nebraska democracy have stated their
position in the irrepressible conflict of
100(1. Their keynote Is opposition to
corporation and railroad rule in the
political affairs that interest the people.
That suggests nn Impertinent query:
How many of the "400" really paid
their railroad fares to Lincoln In hard
cash?
Omaha Is looking for all the new In
dustries it can get, but it has already
built too many air castles ou paper.
Every legitimate enterprise whose
promoters mean business will have
respectful consideration, but the hot-air
artists will do us a favor by glvlug
Omaha a wide lerth.
South Omaha seems to have polled
nearly 3.000 votes at Its municipal
primary under the new direct nomina
tion law. This is a pretty good per
centage. If Omaha scores as well at
Its coming primary it will poll between
0,000 and 10,000 votes.
Those Hungarian miners who are re
turning to their native land to avoid
trouble during the prospective strike In
Pennsylvania may le jumping from the
frying pan Into Uie fire, unless reports
from Budapest exaggerate the situation.
President Stiekney was a potential
factor In the establishment of the
Omaha Grain exchange, but those
promised cereal and flour mills have
not yet materialized, probably Itecause
the mills of the gods grind slowly.
laaiaaallaa; Trvahle.
Washington Post.
There ia a mysterious split In the ranks
of the Chinese imperial conunlsaloners visiting-
this countr)'. Evidently the American
highball ia gfttlns in Its work on the tem
pers of the commissioners In their chats
before breakfast.
Prosperity Baalahrs the lleSrtt.
San Francisco Chronicle,
The deficit has been wiped out and the
government is again working on a surplus
basis, bow it mill be la order for the
papers which were picturing; the dire con
sequences certain to result from running
the government with a deficit staring the
country in the face to turn about and di
late upon the mcnare to our Institutions
contained In an overflowing treasury.
Twklast a Tumble.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Kansas City people are mad because a
man who announced that he was going to
build an elcven-etory theater there has
made his building only three stories In
height. They are probably afraid Omaha
will hear about it.
laternatlnnal (iaine of See-San-.
Baltimore American.
Hope and fenr seem to be playing a regu
lar eeaw game at the conference at Alge
clras. One day harmony la assured and the
next war between Germany and Franeo
appears Inevitable, while in the next report
the clouds are clearing away, with Indica
tions of rrgathcrlng. In the meantime the
Moroccans themselves seem to be much
like the flowers that bloom In the spring
they have nothing to do with the case.
SrEI.I.IXi RKFORM.
More to Dispense with t aeleas Letters
In Words.
Washington Star.
The National Educational association Is
In session at Louisville. In the course of
an informal discussion of spelling reform
a resolution was adopted requesting the
association to order the following twelve
phonetic words used hereafter In all Its
publications:
"Blsness" for business, "enuf" for
enough, "f ether" for feather, "mesure" for
measure; "plesure" for pleasure, "red" for
read, "ruf" for rough, rirauC for trough,
"thru" for through. 'tuf" for tough,
"tung" for tongue, "yung" for young.
There Is no question of the plain logic of
the spoiling reform proposition. It ap
peals to the reason. Its advocates can
talk Into silence anyone who undertakes to
defend the present arbltrar unsystematic
code of symbols on the ground of science.
Yet when all Is said and done, the oppo
nent of the reform has only to say that the
thing cannot be done by law or rcsol'i
tlon, and that ends the debate. Custom Is
the determining factor. If the National
Educational association adopts these twelve
phonetic spellings and sticks to them, and
then If the text book publishers agree to
adopt them, and if the teachers strictly
follow the books and the children are not
corrected at home, and If there is no prohi
bition of the process by statute, the next
generation will probably write somewhat aa
follows:
Klsness over for the day, the yung woman
set forth for plesure. She put on a hat
with a red fether and mesured her way to
ward the country, passing thru a tuf part
of the town, where the yungsters crowded
about the horse traufs, their tungs send
ing forth ruf words which she had never
red without 'blushing.
Could we ever get used to such spelling?
Of course we could. We can get used to
anything. We acquire a taste for caviare
occasionally, and most of us are now able
to visualize John D. Rockefeller with a
wig Instead of a bald pale. But In this
matter of spelling reform It Is always to be
said that the adoption of the plain and
simple combinations of common sense will,
at one fell swoop, destroy the llns which
now are drawn between certain social
groups. No longer can the good spellers
lift their eyebrows In mute scorn of the
poor spellers, casting them into outer
darkness. No more will misspelled letters
be Joyfully read aloud In newspaper offices
as a diversion from the weary grind of the
day's work. Great reforms are always
costly.
the: railroad iostktio.
Slanlflranee of the Struagle for
Jadtclat Hevlew.
Minneapolis Journal.
The controversy rages now around that
provision of the Hepburn bill which limits
the courts to passing upon the law and
does not include an invitation to roam over
the whole field pf facts in determining
whether the commission did right. If the
bill is passed as it stands, there might be
many rates fixed by the commission which
the courts will not interfere with, because
they are not at all confiscatory, and the
proceedings have been regularly taken. As
a mutter of fact, however, the commission
would, In this realm of discretion, make
very few rates. The railroads knowing that
the commission had the power to make
and enforce reasonable rates, would save
their fuce by making the reasonable rates
themselves. On the other hand, If the
sonata succeeds In emasculating the bill so
as to provide that every rate made by the
commission shall start a new lawsuit, the
railroads will have no incentive to make
reasonable rates. They will make unrea
sonable or discriminating rates, as they
choose, and figure on reaping the reward
of their Industry while their lawyers are
carrying suits through the courts. To
guard this feature of the review business,
Mr. Bpooner lias suggested an amendment
which provides that in case of an appeal
by a railroad from a commission-made
rate, the railroad shall put up in court for
each shipper the difference between Its rate
and the commission rate, to be turned back
to the shipper or the railroad when the
case is finally adjudicated. The weakness
of this scheme Is that the complications
would be endless, and tho cases of Joint
rates beyond human Ingenuity to fathom.
The significance of all these amendments
Is that the railroads seem to prefer some
sort of court to pass upon their matters
than the commission. Perhaps this is be
cause, with the commission, it would bo
one short, sharp buolnesslike decision,
while In a court many subsidiary questions
could be lugged In to prolong the Interesting
proceedings and make the shipper wish ha
had never gone to law.
Under the court-review plan. It is the
shipper who niakea the rate by making the
legal fight. Under the Hepburn bill, it is
the commission which makes the rate by
making It. The railroads seem determined
to shift the burden to the shippers because
they know how to handle them. The essen
tial injustice of the government pretending
to regulate rates and then shunting the
whole burden upon the already-drooping
shoulders of the shippers Is what sticks
out in all thesa so-called court-review
amendments.
A DIMPLE MAKER.
Find a child with dimples
and chubby arms and legs
and you find a healthy child.
Find one with drawn face
and poor, thin body and yoj
see one that needs Scoit's
Emulsion. Your doctor will
no doubt tell you the chili is
fat-starved its food is not
nourishing it.
Nothing helps these thin,
pale children like Scott's
Emulsion. It contains the
very element of fat they need.
It supplies them with a per
feet and quickly digested
nourishment Scott's Emul
sion brings dimples and
rounded limbs.
SCOTT lOWVt, es tmA Siraet, Hum Vj
bits of wahhivjtoi i.irr..
1lr Seeaes mn Inrldents Sketched
oa the Spot.
An Ohio minister. Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts.
sektng a wider field for his skill as a re.
former, blossom) d out In Washington a
year ago as superintendent of "The First
Christian Lobby" ever established at the
national capital. The nature of his graft
was not apparent at the time, later. how
ever. It became so conspicuous that the
I'ostofTlce department assayed to reform
the reformer. The crafty Crafts 'was dis
covered using the congressional frank In
forwarding literature through the mails and
the authorities stopped the game with a
heavy hand.
Mr. Craft had been a familiar figure
around committee rooms at the captlol,
and succedded In having printed In com
mittee hearings no end of matter exploit
ing his own works and views. The book
was mode up by reprinting these hearings,
together with extracts from speeches and
congressional documents. The volumes
were sent out under Representative Gil
lette's frank, which Is marked "part of the
congressional record." .
To every person to whom the book was
sent was also sent a letter under regular
pstage stating that If the recipient chose
to keep the book he might send 35 cents
"for the good of the cause" to the Inter
national Reform bureau. Otherwise the re
cipient should return the book under n
frank which was enclosed with It. The
book was about half an inch thick. The
postage, If paid, would have been considerable.
The Washington Times proposes ex-Governor
Larrabce of Iowa as a member of
the new Interstate Commerce commission,
on account of his activities In securing
the passage in Iowa of a model law on
which much of the celebrated granger leg
islation of several decades ago was pat
terned. Without commenting on Governor
Larrabee's fitness or lack of It, for this
post. It li Interesting to note that he Is a
one-eyed man, and so Is Mr, Tillman, the
titular leader In the rate fight on the floor
of the senate. The prominence of two men
thus afflicted In the present controversy,
suggests the old saying that among the
blind the one-eyed man Is king. But It
has always been said of Larrabee by his
friends In Iowa that he could see a great
many things wjth his solitary eye.
The senate In Washington had Just come
out of executive session the other evenlrfg
and several members were seen to be smok
ing, among them Mr, La Follette of Wis
consin. Senator Pettus of Alabama
stepped up to him and said: "My dear
boy, I am the oldest senator In years, as
you are the youngest In service." "That's
nicely said, senator," replied La Follette,
smiling, "Yes, well, now, let me tell you
something," replied Pettus. "You are re
vealing the secrets of the executive ses
sion when you finish that cigar after the
doors are opened." Both laughed heartily.
"One thing more," continued the old man.
"I don't let out any secrets that way, be
cause I take my tobacco another way.
8ee?" and shifting a lump from his right
to his left cheek he stalked Into the cloak
room.
The most entertaining places In Wash
ington are the galleries of the Senate and
house, where the unlntroduced public are
allowed to sit, drinking in wisdom as rap
idly as It Is distilled by the law makers.
If the correspondents in the press galleries
could penetrate as deeply Into the hearts
and minds of the statesmen, and could
read as readily the deep significance of
their most trivial actions on the floor as
the acute Intelligence of the great un
combed., the newspapers of the land would
be filled each day with highly entertaining
dissertations on national affairs, instead
of an accurate and sometimes tedious rec
ord of what really takes place. On a day
when the senate was waiting for the rail
way rate bill and had nothing to do of any
moment, it was killing time through the
operation of certain minor routine legis
lative processes. Only a few senators
were on the floor, barely enough to give
life to the fiction that the august bodv
was In deliberative session. One drowsy
correspondent sat above the vice presi
dent's chair, dreamily making wretched
caricatures of Eugene Hale. The whole
place was as peaceful and quiet and som
nolent as a barnyard on a midsummer
afternoon.
While traveling In a Pullman car not
long ago Congressman Hardwlck of Geor
gia, the smallest man In the house, found
himself fellow passenger with a well
dressed, quiet-lnoktng negro. This was not
agreeable to the Georgian, who was fur
ther riled on seeing the colored man In
the dining car. He and the darky re
turned to the Pullman about the same
time and then Mr. Hardwlck went to the
conductor and asked that the negro be
put out of the ear. "We can't do that,
sir," the conductor answered. "Well, If
that fresh nigger gets near me I'm going
to wipe up the car with him." declared
the Georgian. "I won't have him around
me. Who Is the black rascal?" "That's
Joe Gans. champion light weight Diurtllst."
answered the conductor, and Mr. Hardwlck
concluded not to "wipe up the car", with
his quiet looking fellow passenger.
While discussion of a military bill was
progressing In the national house of rep
resentatives the members were trying to
understand what was meant by "fire con
trol of field artillery." Several army cap
tains were in the gallery. One member
frankly asked what was meant by "fire
control" and Congressman Parker of ti
committee on military affairs said he
would explain, having seen It work a few
days before. "The signal corps men," he
said, "lay a little telegraph line in Uie
field which operates by telephone. Then
they have a little bit of a spyglass up at
the top of the hill which they level like a
transit. They take a sight on the enemy
and then take another on a church steeple
In the rear and then they know the dis
tance. Bo the gunner shoots over the Mil
and hits his mark without seeing it."
Then the army officers retired in disgust.
Some congressional visitors at the White
House asked President Roosevelt whether
It was true that President Baer of the
Reading road was coining to Washington
to consult him about the proposed coal
strike. "Not that I know of," said ths
president. "I think It Is most unlikely.
Although Baer Is a brother of mine in the
Dutch Reformed church, I think he al
ways crosses himself whenever he thinks
of me or hears my name :.nt!oned."
flood Work of m Novice.
PhlladHlphla Record.
"1-a Follette I a forceful, resourceful
man, who needs watching." Maid Senator
Aldrlch at the close of Friday's d-'hate on
the bill relating to the five rlvllli.-d In
dian tribes: and there wus truth In the
remark. The senator from Wisconsin has
broken through the time-honored custom,
which dooms novitiates to a period of Im
potent silence. He has Jumped Into the
senatorial forum armed cap-a-pie and Is
making his Individuality frit. He did not
succeed In wrltjng Into the bill a prohibi
tion of the ownership of coal mines by rail
road companies or their stockholders, but
he did prevent the adoption of an amend
ment to the bill which would have sanc
tioned continuance af the policy of selling
coal lands In the Indian Territory to trans
portation companies. A pretty good day's
work for a uovicr
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WALTHAM WATCHES.
Mechanical skill and knowledge have
made them the best in the world.
7Ti "Rhjtnidt" movement Is ptrticaUrly recommended made In ? sites.
I'EHSOV!, SOTKS.
Having tried palmistry, crystal gating,
Christian Science, bridge and party polities,
London society is about to study Plato.
Mrs. Hanna has decided to sell Glenmere,
the beautiful country home of the late
Senator Hanna, near Cleveland, O. She
will live In New York with her son.
Jan Kubellk. when In New York, lives
in a private car at One Hundred and Six
tieth street, preferring to do so rather than
live at one of the best New York hotels.
Prof. L. Gaurrlgue, a prominent French
physician, who has made recently some
Important discoveries In the treatment of
tuberculosis. Is soon to be a visitor In New
Yor!:.
Foon Chook, a naturalised Chinaman In
Mexico, Is said to be a millionaire. He
went to Mexico from California twenty
years ago to work as a cook for a railway
construction company.
Baron Sonninn, the new Italian premier,
is of Jewish extraction on his father's side.
His mother was an ICnglish Protestant.
The baron's writings on agrarian questions
have attracted much attention. He was
the founder of the "Giornale d Italia."
It Is reported from Dresden that Germany
will witness a public auction that Is prob
ably unique. The house at Elsenbach in
which Martin Luther lived from Hits to
luOl, being then a youth of from 16 to 18,
Is to be offered for sole, together with all
the historical objects and documents asso
ciated with Luther and his period which
it contuins.
A SCAMDALOl 9 sTGESTIO..
Opponents of the Square Ileal Shutnv
Short Deck.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
It is reported in Washington that sena
tors opposed to the president's rate regula
tion policy have made a proposition to him
thut if he will accept their amendments to
the rate bill they will see that the Domin
ican treaty and Philippine tariff bill, now
sidetracked and practically doomed to de
feat, are extricated and passed. It Is also
reported that the president has indignantly
spurned the scandalous suggestion.
One reason for discrediting this story is
the improbability that any senator would
care to Incur the vigorous denunciation
which the president would be likely to let
loose upon the proposer of such' a dishon
orable compromise. There would be also
the possibility that, as In the beef case and
some others, the president might make tho
whole story public, placing the traders In a
most unpleasant predicament. But aside
from that it Is only too humlliatingly prob
able that the report may be correct. Deals
and trades have not been unknown in the
senate. The public is familiar with the use
to which the statehood bill and others have
been put to obstruct legislation obnoxious
to the dominant element. This offer to pass
bills that have been held up and the Implied
threat to kill them If the president does not
accept the deal are In keeping with the
record of managing senators.
If such an offer has been made the presi
dent will perform a service by making pub
lic the details of the attempted deal. Men
who would thus misuse public measures for
the furtherance of personal ends should
suffer the reprobation they deserve.
Browning, King & Co
ORIGINATORS AND SOLE MAKERS Of HALF SIZES IN CLOTHING.
FUleenth and
Douglas Sis
I uuuyias ijia.
Broadway al tlm Mrl NEW
Just As We Expected
Our special sale of New and Used Pianos was indeed a special
opportunity to save money for those who could possibly arrange to
buy now. There are still many of thoso special pood bargains. No
one will be disappointed, though it may require a special effort to
come in and investigate.
Recent developments show that the commlbslon-glvers and takers
are still hard at work. If where the customer bhould buy was left to
them, there would bo a poor show for anyone to get a piano at a
fair price, because this commission arrangement, both the part you
know of and the part thnt is concealed from you, adds the commis
sion -to the price of the piano and the customer pays It.
We pay no commission. Our prices are so low wu could not afford
it if we wanted to. We give the commission to the customer.
A.HOSPE CO,
It CuM 141c to joiu I he Siiet-t luic
KLASIIKS OF Ft .
"He was greatly Impressed by that plump
MIms Williams "
"I thouKht he would be."
"Yes, she fell on him when they went
skating." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"John, do you ever play cards for
money?"
"No. ma'am. I sometimes think I do,
but It's always the other man that does
it." Cleveland Leader.
"I see," remarked Towne. "that a great
statistician says considerably more than
hnlf the population of the world is fem
inine." "Ridiculous!" retorted Browne. "If that
was so. how would he account for the fact
that 'one-half of the world doesn't know
how the other half lives?" Philadelphia
Press.
"Do you think your constituents endorse
your opinions on this bill?"
"I hope not," answered Senator Sorghum.
"I have done my best to keep them from
finding out what my opinions are." Wash
ington Star,
"Wife," said the comical cobbler, "you'd
bettor get, ready for the poorhouse."
"Why?" demanded the good woman.
"Because," replied the cobbler, "I have
lost my awl." Philadelphia Press.
Toss He Insisted upon kissing me good
night when he left.
Jess The Ideal Wasn't that odd?
Toss I don't know whether It was odd
or even. I didn't, keep count. Cleveland
Leader,
"What makes you think this house was
formerly used as a boarding house for
school teachers?" asked the agent, showing
a prospective tenant through the vacant
house.
"Because the under side of the baluster
rall leading to the dining room Is fringed
with little balls of chewing gum," replied
the wise one. Yonkers Statesman.
. A LOGICAL DKDICTIOV
New Orleans Times.
"The day of careless childhood,"
So mortals clamor when
They grow a trifle older,
"Ah, we were happy then!"
"When we were youths and maidens,"
These mortals all aver
When they are much mature,
"How very glad we were'."
"When we were men and women,"
Grown older, they agree,
"In prime of life, how happy,
How happy, happy, we!"
And ever backward glance they,
t'nto the very end;
The seasons given are seasons
That all do most commend.
Of which plain facts the logic
Is patent and sublime;
We're always happy, though we
Don't know It at the time!
"Brimful of New Ideas"
Liebiij Co.'s New
-COOKBOOK'
By MRS. S. T. RORER
In these rush-about days one must
use all the up-to-date holps to good
cooking. rk send your address and get
this flne.nseful book free. Sixty pages
of new ideas in recipes. Writs to
Iieblg'i Extract of Met Company, Ltd.,
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TOP COATS
The first neetl of spring is the light
weight Top Coat, and spring is sched
uled to arrive this month.
New styles in sack suits are ready
here, too,
AND HAT&i
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"It Is never too early In the season," said
Beau Brummel, "to spruce up.
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